I’m not going to lie to our readers. The New Orleans Hornets didn’t do anything to help me through Hurricane Katrina. If I said that Chris Paul represented some sort of beacon of inspiration for me in my troubled adolescence or that the team gave me some sort of emotional release in the midst of tragedy, it would be so entirely false that it can not be overstated.
Like thousands of others, I lost my home, my friends and family were scattered, and my life was forever changed in a way that will never be undone.